No Powerball jackpot winner, next prize about $174 million

The Powerball numbers for Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, were 8, 17, 22, 28 and 55, with Powerball 14 and a Power Play multiplier of 3X, lottery officials said. No ticket matched all six numbers, leaving the jackpot estimated at about $174 million for the next drawing, with a lump-sum cash option of roughly $80.7 million.

The drawing continued a stretch of rollovers that has produced multiple high-tier winners without producing a jackpot claimant. In Monday’s drawing, tickets sold in Washington, Florida, Illinois and New York each matched five white balls but missed the Powerball to win $1 million, and lottery tallies showed hundreds of thousands of other tickets nationwide won smaller prizes. The Powerball jackpot was last hit on Sept. 6, when winners in Missouri and Texas split a $1.787 billion grand prize.

Smaller but notable prizes were reported in recent drawings. For the Sept. 27 drawing, winning numbers 10, 16, 32, 61 and 66 with Powerball 4 produced multiple prizes, including $100,000 winning tickets in Texas and North Carolina that matched four numbers plus the Powerball with Power Play applied. In New Jersey, third-tier prizes have been won both through in-store purchases...